KILLED in a Sentence

Learn KILLED from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for KILLED, such as:
1. Her son was killed in battle.
2. And get killed for your pains.
3. I killed two hours watching TV.
4. Many of his comrades were killed in the battle.
5. He was killed a few days ago in a skiing accident.
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 Meanings and Examples of KILLED
kill
 n.  the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile
 v.  end or extinguish by forceful means
killing
 n.  the act of terminating a life
 a.  very funny
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  If she could have killed him, she would have done it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Except for the ever-present torment that Ashley might be killed, the war interested her not at all, and nursing was something she did simply because she didn't know how to get out of it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  The war didn't seem to be a holy affair, but a nuisance that killed men senselessly and cost money and made luxuries hard to get.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  And get killed for your pains.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  That terrific scandal concerning the Charleston girl he had compromised and the brother he had killed was public property.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  But hideous rumors that Lee was killed, the battle lost, and enormous casualty lists coming in, fled up and down the quiet streets like darting bats.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  "And have him get killed," said Scarlett shortly, thinking of Darcy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  "It would be better to have a son even if he did get killed than to never have one," said Melanie and gulped.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
9  Scarlett, I have nightmares when I think what might happen to her if I were killed and she had no one to turn to.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  The first reports were "Missing--believed killed" and so they appeared on the casualty list.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  He had conducted the retreat in masterly fashion, for they had lost few men and the Yankees killed and captured ran high.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  These men hoped to equip themselves from killed and captured Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  "I'm glad you killed him," said Melanie her gentle eyes hard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  And they dragged Mother out and killed her about twenty feet from where I was lying.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  She ordered the calf killed, because he drank so much of the precious milk, and that night everyone ate so much fresh veal all of them were ill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  According to French press reports, three people have been killed.
2  You admit you fired the gun and we now know that the shot killed the victim so you are, ipso facto, responsible for his death.
3  He was killed a few days ago in a skiing accident.
4  Her son was killed in battle.
5  Many of his comrades were killed in the battle.
6  Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.
7  I killed two hours watching TV.
8  It really screwed him up when he saw his friend get killed.
9  You use your gentle eyes, killed who want to forget you.
10  I agree that he was probably killed by a single blow and that wooden mallet on the table seems the likely weapon.
11  He erected a monument on the spot where his daughter was killed.
12  Thousands of young salmon and trout have been killed by the pollution.
13  His brother was killed in a shooting incident last year.
14  He vowed to take his revenge on the man who had killed his brother.
15  Thousands of innocent civilians have been killed in this conflict.